He sparked a huge scandal that Mircea Cărtărescu was rejected by the Romanian Academy at a single vote, although he is the greatest contemporary Romanian writer and at the same time the best -selling in the country and abroad, being translated into dozens of languages and a big winner. International literary awards.
Mircea Cărtărescu, the most appreciated contemporary Romanian writer Cosmin Bumbuț
By rejecting only a vote of Mircea Cărtărescu, the Romanian Academy has attracted numerous critics. A long -commented rejection, given the international prizes, the appreciation and readers of Mircea Cărtărescu. One problem at the present time in the Romanian Academy is that some members are an exacerbated and opaque nationalism, but also grinded by envy and real estate, critics say.
The most recent example regarding the undeniable value of Mircea Cărtărescu, refused by the Romanian Academy: in 2024, for the novel “Solenoid”, he won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award. The prize, sponsored by the Dublin Municipal Council, is the largest in the world for a single novel published in English.
“Nicolae Breban bydraws him and the glory of Cărtărescu was robbed”
Among those who voted against Mircea Cărtărescu counted the writer Nicolae Breban, who before 1989 was among the preferences of the communist power with the communist power, including a member in the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. In addition, Nicolae Breban was friends with the Tistorner Nicolae Pleșiță and worked for the neutralization of Paul Goma.
Nicolae Breban, one of the members who voted against Mircea Cărtărescu
The reputed professor Vladimir Tismăneanu is very upset by the rejection of the candidacy of Mircea Cărtărescu by the Romanian Academy, but also by the vote against Nicolae Breban.
“The vote in the plenary of the Academy is like an x -ray of the moral and intellectual state in Romania. It is a “state” in the sense of status, inert, delayed, residual, revolut. By rejecting Mircea Cărtărescu, those who operated this ignorance rejected the very idea of modernity as an open space. Nicolae Breban, Mihăescu, Matei, Bădescu are votists. They are not conservatives, but preserves from a past that are obstinate not to pass. The past represented by Ceausescu’s national Stalinism. It was a reaction of refusal of oxygen in a spoiled body, touched by a malignant senility. The vot of Nicolae Breban, the once-friendly friend of the Securistic General Pleșiță, the constant denigrator of Monica Lovinescu and of Virgil Ierunca, prevented the reception of Mircea Cărtărescu in that forum. Why did Breban do it? From some complex pyramids. From the optic. He consumes him, the glory of Cărtărescu. His success in the country and throughout the world ”Vladimir Tismăneanu, professor of political science and director of the Center for the study of post -communist societies at the University of Maryland, told “Adevărul Adevărul Adevărul Adevărul Adevă Adevă Adevărul Adevă Avăru Avăru Avă Tră Mare Maryland.
“It does not Mircea Cărtărescu needs Romania, but Romania needs Mircea Cărtărescu”
The attitude of the members of the Romanian Academy also surprised the actress Oana Pellea:“Incredible! The Romanian Academy voted for the second time against the reception of Mircea Cărtărescu among his ranks. Instead, Mircea Cărtărescu is, in place of honor, in the national and universal cultural heritage. I would be interested in how they motivated their vote ”.
And Gabriel Bebeșelea, the main conductor of the Georgescu Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in the Capital, was very disappointed that the Romanian Academy did not receive Mircea Cărtărescu.
Conductor Gabriel Bebeșelea Photo Ionuț Macri
“The shame was the first feeling that tried me after finding out the result of the vote that prevents the huge writer Mircea Cărtărescu to become a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. The Romanian Academy should have been proud in case Mircea Cărtărescu had agreed to become a member, not the other way around. What is reproached for Mircea Cărtărescu is the supreme sin of being stated some truths from our complicated past, but they want to be mysterified. It is quite bleak that the result of this vote has in the substrate a much more serious state, brought to the surface in all its servant in recent months: the re-normalization of disassembled nationalism that refuses and obscures factual historical realities, removing us European values, of the civilized and peace world. It is not Mircea Cărtărescu needs Romania, but Romania needs Mircea Cărtărescu. But first, Romania must confront and face the demons of the past (who have returned to life) to deserve people of culture and science, artists and writers who are acclaimed by a whole world ”said Gabriel Bebeșelea.
“Culture, the first edifice to fall in Romania”
And the well -known poet Bogdan O. Popescu criticized the vote of the Romanian Academy.
“I know much better than many others. Mircea is the most important Romanian writer, as an international impact at least, always. Eminescu, Nichita, Caragiale, Camil Petrescu (and so, for comparison), they are great writers but they have not been able to be universal, what Mircea succeeded, happened – ready, this is past – and present – of course . Of course you can blame the Romanian Academy. What is wrong, in my opinion. Because, that’s how I understood, 73 members voted for 37 against. The Academy is now a mixture of people, which must instantly clarify its road and criteria. Some extremely valuable, others less. I know many members of the Romanian Academy, with enough I am a friend. Nicolae Breban – he talks about him. I met him, Traian T. Coșovei took me to meetings where he was coming. He is a good writer, agree. But he was never in the League of Mircea Cărtărescu, who, to understand each other, is with Céline, Márquez, Llosa, Eco. When I saw myself with Mr. Breban, I was talking, but the infatuation understood the room (which never happened with Trajan). I am afraid that, although in the winter of life, he has no wisdom to judge for the institution, for the academy, nor for Romania. It is possible to suffer the frustration that it is clear that it is not as good as Mircea Cărtărescu. How sad! For the academy, I say. Not for Mircea ”said Bogdan O. Popescu.
Poet Bogdan O. Popescu Photo Facebook
Andrei Marcovici, a member of the State Philharmonic in Sibiu, criticizes the fact that the Romanian Academy did not receive Mircea Cărtărescu among his ranks.
“I think we are heading for self -destruction. For me, Mircea Cărtărescu is a genius. Culture is the first edifice that will fall in Romania because it does not matter, it is equal to zero … The institutions in Romania of culture are used to bring money and image to the parties that run this 35 -year -old country, with frustrated cultural managers and Non-professionals who consider themselves reformers, but are as corrupt as those who put them there. It is a pity and not a sin from that one to work on Sunday in the orchard, but a sin that no one will repair in a hundred years ”says Andrei Marcovici.
The writer Cezar-Paul Bădescu made a parallel between Nicolae Breban’s attitude towards Mircea Cărtărescu and the impeccable way in which Mircea Cărtărescu spoke precisely about the one who opposed his entry into the Romanian Academy: “I read that the rejection of Mircea Cartarescu from yesterday, at the Academy, was based on the accusations brought by Nicolae Breban and, without wanting, I remember how beautiful Mircea spoke about Breban at the seminar he held in letters and I was a student and where, as a fundamental writing of contemporary Romanian literature, he chose to present “goodwill”.
